Yeah, that aint happening, I'm afraid.
I mean, let's be realistic here:
- Locations. While shep looked good, actual locations where they did quests looked very poor, I think Obsidian are somewhat out of their waters here to create a high standard (Witcher 3 equivalent) of good looking locations. Some of the parts of trailer were nothing but eye gouging level with colors giving you new sickness you never knew you had.
Also existence of the ship and missions can lead to hub-based ME gameplay which, I dunno, is just really not that exciting compared to real open world RPG.
- NPCs. Aside from scientist, they all looked bland as fuck, blander than VTM NPCs. Their dialogue was not stellar either. Again, Obsidian is working on 3d first person, but now they're building stuff from scratch, not modding Fallout 3. Great animations and unique looks seems like ain't happening.
- Dialogue/Story. Two m ladies, worked on Deadfire. We know how Deadfire turned up. Unless Boyarsky make them military march hands straight and edits everything they do, well, we already seen what would be humor and the "U just be u lol!". Maybe points will be gained for shedding any pretense of being serious and just making lol game, but can they do even that?
- Gameplay. We've seen it. It will be a bad, outdated first person shooter. With quest compass. For consoles.
This leaves us roleplaying system and C&C probably. Roleplaying system, I doubt it would make casuls break their brains to figure out anything. There's that flaws gimmick. C&C, and maybe a twist or two (we know Troika games were strong when plot was about some conspiracy) - we don't know.
Also, I believe they will try to hit some particular date to ship this, which means they'd have to make this fast. With his mystical greedy chinese boss abilities, Fearghus somehow grabbed everyone by the balls, parading 2 old school ORIGINAL FALLOUT developers like thoroughbred horses and collecting hype like shiiit (Fallout masturbation never reached higher, we now see not fallout rip off of fallout rip off made by fallout people its falloutception all together with their own Moon-Moon logo guy; member when these developers did things noone else did, like translating vampires or steampunk fantasy gurps into CRPGs? yeah not today). Naturally people would just snowball it from here.
Which means time is ticking and we may get a quite buggy/unfinished product in the end.
Forgive me for being dat guy, but does anyone really believe we, i.e. people who like RPGs, or even people who tolerate AAA shit for storyfaggotry, have anything to gain from all this? Excuse me for being very sceptical.
P.S. I really liked the song.